Vermont, Maine, Connecticut senators add sexual orientation and gender ID protections to homeless youth...
Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Susan Collins of Maine and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, reintroduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act late this month. The legislation includes expanded protections for LGBTQ...
Depression rates still high among gay teens, Brown University study shows
According to a new Brown University study on Massachusetts teenagers published in an American Medical Association journal, JAMA Pediatrics, depression rates of teens remain significantly higher than their heterosexual peers, despite an overall decline...
Rhode Island Foundation awards $53,000 to eight LGBTQ nonprofits
The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded $53,000 to share between eight LGBTQ nonprofits. The funding aims to support groups "engaged in efforts ranging from civil rights advocacy for families and youth to improving the...
Out Maine welcomes new board members with ‘broad spectrum of experience and wisdom’
Out Maine—the Rockland-based nonprofit supporting rural young people "of diverse sexual orientations, gender expressions and gender identities"—is welcoming five new members to its board of directors.
“We are thrilled with this new infusion of energy and...
Pathways to Pride: MetroWest’s Booming LGBTQ Older Adult Initiative
As recently as a few years ago the MetroWest area was considered a “gay desert.” There were no programs, social opportunities, services or resources for LGBTQ older adults.
In the past three years a group...
Rhode Island youth sports program partners with LGBT+ youth initiative
Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), the Rhode Island nonprofit that inspires academic achievement through sports—namely, soccer—is partnering with the LGBT+ youth initiative Play Proud to train coaches to help their programs...
Glossier pop-up shop at Boston’s Seaport to donate proceeds to BAGLY
Glossier's new pop-up shop in Boston's Seaport district will donate proceeds to fund a "year's worth of Family Dinners" program put on by the Boston Alliance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth (BAGLY),...
Greater Boston PFLAG Executive Director Val Frias to step down
After three years of leadership and service, Greater Boston PFLAG's executive director, Val Frias, is leaving the organization to become the CEO of the elderly and disabled home and community-based care nonprofit Ethos. Frias's...
Three Connecticut high school athletes sue against transgender competitors
Three Connecticut high school track team runners filed a complaint with the US Education Department's Office for Civil Rights alleging that transgender athletes have cost them races and scholarships. Conservative Christian law firm Alliance...
LGBTQ youth in rural Maine see growing support through efforts like Mount Desert Island...
It's almost impossible to know what life is like elsewhere unless we experience it ourselves, or at least hear about it on the news. Take a story in the Bangor Daily News, for example....
